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Could cattle guards be used to stop deer from crossing? If so two guards would save me half a mile of deer fencing.
Also does anyone have any ideas about deer fencing? I'm looking at almost two miles of deer fencing to protect my grapes.
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Could cattle guards be used to stop deer from crossing? If so two guards would save me half a mile of deer fencing.
Also does anyone have any ideas about deer fencing? I'm looking at almost two miles of deer fencing to protect my grapes.
If you put two of them butted up against each other.... maybe. Seen it done in high fence areas in Texas. Most places have gone to high electric gates though.
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Can't use gates because neighbors have an easement.
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Maybe as Rockinbar said two in tandem, but I think they would just jump them
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I think not. Cattle guards are designed to stop walking animals, not running jumping animals. We have had several ornery cows that jump the cattle guard from time to time. You would have to make a real wide cattle guard, and then your just going to end up with a lot if injured deer.
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I have seen mule deer tiptoe across a cattle guard in Central OR. It was a real crackup and I am sorry I did not have a camera.
Generally they will just jump a fence.
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the deer were there first......
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I have seen mule deer tiptoe across a cattle guard in Central OR. It was a real crackup and I am sorry I did not have a camera.
Generally they will just jump a fence. Me too.....and I agree.
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I have measured big mule deer buck jumps at something like 20 feet (on a full tilt escape) and my cattle guard here would be easy jumping for them if they needed to go over it. Even a doubled guard might not work if it was a big deer and in a hurry.
A six foot fence seems to defeat the elk here, and they seem to be intimidated by the cattle guard even though I think they easily could clear it if they wished to do so.
You may need to get a couple of deer hating dogs and leave them out at night.
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I have seen mule deer tiptoe across a cattle guard in Central OR. It was a real crackup and I am sorry I did not have a camera.
Generally they will just jump a fence. I'm thinking on making one out of 1.5" pipe.
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The funniest cattle guard I saw was when the bull tiptoed across the cattle guard and under the pipe we had across the middle we used as a gate. He walked down the road to a large rain puddle, got a drink, turned around and came back the same way. It looked like he had done it many times and the cattle guard didn't slow him one bit.
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I've watched my goats hop right over one. Deer can jump considerably farther.
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Would an electric gate work for your neighbors and you? I think I saw and electric gate that operates with garage door opener type. Not sure where. I have draft horses that just walk across cattle guards so I was looking into a gate.
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There should be a government training program for those guards so that they would know how to deal with Deer.
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Simple
Three strands of electric fence wire.
Cut foil tabs of reynolds wrap, lace em with peanut butter wrap them over the fence. Do this intermittantly the whole length.
It will entice the bastards to lick the foil. After a few times of getting their asses busted, it will condition them to avoid that fence and anything in it.
Works for whitetails in polygon exclusions
Not sure about 2 mile runs. I might condense and contain the immediate area around the grapes. Unless you've got 2 miles of grapes. Then youre a baller for sure and don't need our advice. Just hire a helicopter eradication team.
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Would an electric gate work for your neighbors and you? I think I saw and electric gate that operates with garage door opener type. Not sure where. I have draft horses that just walk across cattle guards so I was looking into a gate.
Koehn Drive Thru Electric Gates This looked good to me. Looked into electric gates but won't work because my neighbor has a home based business and has lots of deliveries. Also electric gates are very expensive, probably about the same as fencing both sides of the road.
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The two miles includes perimeter and cross fencing. Total enclosed area will be about ten acres.
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